expender needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 58 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
expender is the highest-scoring word from expender, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 58 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in expender — and it is expender itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in expender produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are preened and preneed, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling expender turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeper. For points, the strongest play is expend — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expender. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is preed, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in expender produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer, need, nerd, and peed. For points, the strongest play is prex — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling expender turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, pee, pen, per, red, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are dex and xed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in expender. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: ex, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in expender plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in expender and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
expender is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for expender. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
expender is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing expender unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is expender, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from expender earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in expender produce 58 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.